# Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2

An audiobook by Katherine Mansfield, read by LibriVox volunteers (5 h 53 min, English).

The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly living with one foot firmly planted in this life, even if her other is already reaching tentatively across a gloomy chasm to the next. Unsurprisingly, given the perilous state of the young author's health at the time Mansfield wrote them, many of these stories allude to that strange transformative process we call 'death'. And yet — and this is really quite a miracle — their net effect is actually extraordinarily uplifting. (Summary by Peter Dann)

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## Chapters

1. At the Bay — parts 1 to 6 (40:14): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_01_mansfield_64kb.mp3
2. At the Bay — parts 7 to 12 (42:26): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_02_mansfield_64kb.mp3
3. The Garden-Party (32:48): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_03_mansfield_64kb.mp3
4. The Daughters of the Late Colonel (43:16): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_04_mansfield_64kb.mp3
5. Mr. and Mrs. Dove (19:57): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_05_mansfield_64kb.mp3
6. The Young Girl (13:17): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_06_mansfield_64kb.mp3
7. Life of Ma Parker (14:40): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_07_mansfield_64kb.mp3
8. Marriage à la Mode (23:51): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_08_mansfield_64kb.mp3
9. The Voyage (19:07): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_09_mansfield_64kb.mp3
10. Miss Brill (11:46): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_10_mansfield_64kb.mp3
11. Her First Ball (15:31): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_11_mansfield_64kb.mp3
12. The Singing Lesson (14:32): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_12_mansfield_64kb.mp3
13. The Stranger (27:06): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_13_mansfield_64kb.mp3
14. Bank Holiday (8:07): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_14_mansfield_64kb.mp3
15. An Ideal Family (15:03): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_15_mansfield_64kb.mp3
16. The Lady’s Maid (11:33): https://archive.org/download/garden_party_2308_librivox/gardenparty_16_mansfield_64kb.mp3